Question / Help Actually playing through OBS

[desmortum]

Hey there.

I have no room for TV or monitor here and I have an iMac, so there’s no HDMI. Because of that I decided to play my PS4 through Razer Ripsaw.

Vendor recommended OBS Classic so gave it a try. I disabled encoding while previewing and so on. Although there’s almost no delay, in 1080p60 I am experiencing framerate instability. Almost every few seconds image lags like if it reduces rate down to 30. But I like reaction time. I tried XSplit but it lags too, less flexible, commercial etc.

So I tried whole another class of apps: players. VLC sees no audio device there and has ridiculous delay even with no buffering. I also tried whole hell of a renderers for MCP-HC, all standard, madVR and Haali, spent hours configuring them. Some of them have no lags but they are smooth and have delay due to rendering time. Nothing even close to OBS blaze.

I have Core i5 3.4GHz, 16Gb 1666Mhz RAM, GTX 775M 2Gb VRAM.

Is there way of making fast yet smooth rendering?

Thank you.

 

[Boildown]

How are you running OBS Classic on an iMac? OBS Classic is Windows only.

Your objective is to stream your PS4 games using your iMac and a Razer Ripsaw? There's a Mac version of OBS Studio, you should probably try that.

 

[desmortum]

How are you running OBS Classic on an iMac? OBS Classic is Windows only.

Your objective is to stream your PS4 games using your iMac and a Razer Ripsaw? There's a Mac version of OBS Studio, you should probably try that.

I am using Windows 7 natively installed on iMac. There's no problem with it for ten years already. They provide drivers. And yes, there's OBS studio for Mac, but there're no Ripsaw drivers for it.

 

[Boildown]

You playing the game off the OBS preview screen then? Maybe try an HDMI splitter on the console, putting one side to your TV and the other side to your Mac.

 

[desmortum]

You playing the game off the OBS preview screen then? Maybe try an HDMI splitter on the console, putting one side to your TV and the other side to your Mac.

Man, if I'd have a monitor or TV within reach I'd hook console there and wouldn't bother buying capture card. I have no room here to put TV and main TV is like many meters away in living room, so I bought this Razer Ripcrap only to play... Is there way to just view 1080p60 with no slutter or fps drops? It records video with OBS just fine, but preview window has constant lags... What's the deal?

 

[Boildown]

Hmm, not sure I've never paid any attention to the preview window, I don't think you're supposed to play off of it, but maybe some people do. You might try OBS Studio (Windows) and see if its any better, it has newer code. The other thing to do would be a forum search for "preview window" or something like that, possible this has been solved before.